Greece Notes
The Rise of the Greeks
(1000 BCE ? 500 BCE)
Greece was a relatively resource-poor region, but had access to:
Foreign sources of raw materials
Markets abroad
Greeks were in contact with other peoples:
ideas
Geography:
Part of a large ecological zone that
encompasses the Mediterranean Sea & the lands
surrounding it
Bounded by the Atlantic O. to the W., the
Alps to the N., the Syrian Desert to the E.,
and the Sahara to the S.
Hot dry summers; windy, cooler winters
Limited arable land, thin topsoil, sparse
rainfall in the south ( couldn?t sustain lg.
pop.
Mountains, rivers, seas kept units of settlement small; in the N., where farmland was more expansive (ex. Macedonia), geographically larger states developed